kablam

[dchenes]

Very good, then. Now I have to find an apartment in Boston. What's a 1BR outside, or on the fringes of, college student central going for these days?

The current contingency plan is to use my free ticket to fly back to Boston almost immediately after graduation, find an apartment for July 1, fly back to Kent, pack everything and job-hunt at the same time if necessary, and then somehow get self and stuff to new apartment for July 1 and go quietly mad.

Never mind what I said last week about weighing a hundred and eighty pounds by May. By the time I get this apartment-and-job Mongolian clusterfuck sorted out, I'll probably have given up eating and sleeping.

Comments

How about Medford/Tufts college student central?

[marmota.livejournal.com]

Any chance of you fitting into an 8'x10' room? Omri just moved out, and I'm currently hoping to not have to get a housemate again, but I could at least put you up for a month or three while you settled back into the area. I was charging him $300/month plus a minor share of the utilities; at a guess I'd say that's about half the going rate, but it's a tiny room and he was hardly ever here.

Re: How about Medford/Tufts college student central?

[dchenes.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the thought, but I don't think I'd fit any more. I barely fit into an 8 x10 room in 1998, when I had a twin bed.

[sebastian-tombs.livejournal.com]

It will be great to have you back again!

[melopoeia.livejournal.com]

Not sure how much they go for, but it depends where you are looking. I do know a Tufts graduate student who might know people who need roommates. I will check.

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

I saw an old high school friend last night. I suspect that you would really get along with her. She is known as greenlily on LJ and you both already have overlapping friends and interests. (And by friends I don't just mean me. she also knows pup, channaleh, kalessin, and other MIT or Arisia people. She works at Boston Conservatory and is in a bunch of local singing groups. She's also in MIT G&S) She is planning to try to find a new apartment this summer as well. I really think you two should try to talk and see if it would be worth you considering rooming together.

Barring that, I would say that if you look in the right areas, that an apartment isn't going for anything more than it was when you left. You can probably find a studio or a 1 bedroom for $700- $1000. I would highly recommend looking on craigslist. That way you avoid the whole realtor fee thing. And you could conside asking the owners to email you pictures to determine whether or not it would work for you. And if you want, when you find a place you are interested in, I would be willing to go look at it on a weekend to tell you if its are any good.
And if you don't find a place before you need to move down here, all you have to do is ask and we will clean out the space in the furnished basement room and you can stay there for a bit while looking. I know that our landlord wouldn't mind as long as you didn't stay too long (And for him, too long would probably be a couple months. Then he'd start asking about rent rather than trying to kick you out.)